Hybrid Course – Limited Seat Time
NURS 2275 Skills & Pharmacology I
Memo From: Candy Mortenson-Klimpel & Margaret Brewer, Instructor
Spring Semester 2013
Welcome to NURS 2275 – Skills & Pharmacology I – it will be my privilege to coordinate your learning
activities for this course as your instructor.
Let's cover a few start-up details so your hybrid learning through South Central College is a rewarding
experience. This course begins on January 14, 2013, and will be meeting face-to-face on Tuesday,
January 15 from 2:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. in room (to be determined) on the North Mankato campus. At
that time you will be provided with the required face-to-face course meeting dates.
NOTE: Students taking their lab on the NM campus will have Margaret Brewer as their instructor for the
actual classroom "lab" only. Candy coordinates & teaches the online portion of the course.
Here are some things I want you to know before we meet.
These two textbooks are for the Pharmacology portion of the course. Please purchase the Hitner
and Nagle Pharmacology textbook from the SCC bookstore. It has an access code to publisher learning
activities for a minimal fee that is embedded into the cost of the textbook. If you buy a used book or a
book from an Internet source, the access code will not function and you will need to pay considerably
more for the access code.
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Pharmacology, Sixth Edition
Hitner and Nagle
McGraw Hill, 2011
978-0-0779-6962-2
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Dimensional Analysis for Meds, Fourth Edition
Curren
Delmar
978-1-4354-3867-5
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Davis’ Drug Guide for Nurses, 13th Edition
Deglin & Vallerud
Davis Company
978-0-8036-2873-3
Hybrid Course – Limited Seat Time
The following textbooks are for the Skills portion of the course.
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Fundamentals of Nursing: The Art and Science of Nursing Care
Taylor
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
978-0-7817-9383-4
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Taylor’s Clinical Nursing Skills: A Nursing Process Approach, Third Edition
Lynn
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
978-0-7817-9384-1
TITLE:
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Quick and Easy Medical Terminology, Sixth Edition
Leonard
Saunders Elsevier
978-1-4377-0839-4
Source:
http://www.southcentralbookstore.com
Instructor contact information:
Throughout the semester, contact us privately using Desire2Learn’s mail feature that will send an e-mail
to our South Central College e-mail account (Candy.Mortenson@southcentral.edu) or
(Margaret.Brewer@southcentral.edu) . Use these same e-mail addresses if you need to contact us
before the start of the semester. You may also contact Candy by phone at 507-389-7479 (office) or
Margaret by phone at 507-389-7300. We will try to answer all course e-mail quickly. However, we urge
you not to save questions until Friday nights. If you decide to email late on Friday afternoon, we reserve
the right to not respond until Monday morning.
You need access to a computer to participate in this course. Your computer will need:
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access to a computer with an Internet connection
current, supported web browser… Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 or newest version of Firefox
check http://online.southcentral.edu/students/skillsrequirements.html for complete technology
specs
Course access:
You will have Internet access to the course content through Desire2Learn. Set your URL to
https://southcentral.ims.mnscu.edu to Login and you'll reach the course information. Courses will be
available January 14, 2013.
Your login information is based on your SCC Student ID. Go to http://online.southcentral.edu/students
for access to many more online help provided by South Central Online.
Again, WELCOME. I'll see you on the Web!